hair-pulling frustration

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> What usually stops me is the need to create a separate, stripped-down
> stack to demonstrate a more complicated bug. I completely understand
> the need for this, especially in my case where the original stack is
> huge and complex, and I wouldn't expect RR to plow through all that.
> But extracting the exact set of circumstances that reproduce the 
> problem
> without including all the surrounding code can sometimes be a whole
> afternoon's work or more, so I don't do it. I just hope someone else
> has a simpler example and will report it for me instead.
> 
> I know when I do this that I'm not helping myself very much, but
> there's too much going on to do otherwise.

No shame in that, or if there is I'm just shameless 'cause I do that all 
the time.

Like you, I recognize that not pinning down a recipe won't help me get 
it fixed, but like RunRev themselves we all have to balance the desire 
for completely air-tight work with the realities of keeping the doors 
open.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.org